Overall, Ivanka Trump products typically dominate the top 20 of their appropriate categories on Amazon, which highlights the lack of influence brick-and-mortar stores wield in the political arena.

On Friday, Burlington announced it was yanking all of Ivanka’s products it sells on-line.

The retailer did not publicly comment on the matter, and it’s likely, although unconfirmed, that Burlington was phasing out Trump products at its physical stores.

Earlier in the month Nordstrom’s announced it was severing ties with Ivanka Trump due to “poor sales,” but an industry expert said that was likely a complete lie to cover up the political agenda behind the move.

“This is a classic example of a retailer making a decision based on their fear of standing up to political pressure – even on a limited scale,” the expert told Breitbart on the condition of anonymity. “It was clear from their actions since last fall that Nordstrom would prefer to sell out to loud liberal groups who weren’t even regular Nordstrom consumers, just to avoid controversy.”

“…Insiders know how stores can easily play games with placement of merchandise and other ways to lower numbers, and its very possible Nordstrom’s did that here to cover themselves.”

An internal memo given to Nordstrom’s employees suggests that was the case:

Last Friday an executive order was signed by the President of the United States related to immigration. This subject is one we’re watching closely — our family’s heritage, the company’s roots, and the diverse employees and customers we serve are top of mind. When John W. Nordstrom came to the U.S. as an immigrant, he was given opportunities that allowed him to find a more prosperous and happy life. In so many ways, our humble beginnings and the work ethic and gratitude that goes with it helped shape the culture of our company to this day.

Similarly, Sears and K-Mart also dropped Trump-related products from their online stores.

Tapper caught pushing fake news

CNN pundits were unable to suppress their outrage after President Trump’s marathon press conference in which he downgraded the floundering propaganda network from “fake news” to “very fake news.”

Jake Tapper exhibited a particularly high level of indignance during a panel discussion, at one point turning to the camera to deliver direct orders to the president to “stop whining and do your job.”

In the midst of accusing Trump of lying and sharing inaccurate information, Tapper rattled off an easily deconstructible whopper of his own.

“If you are a soldier in harm’s way right now; if you are a hungry child in Appalachia or the inner city; if you are an unemployed worker in a hollow shell of a steel town – that’s not a president who seemed rather focused on your particular needs and wants,” he said.

“If you are a soldier in harm’s way right now…”

During the presser, Trump addressed his team’s plans for a massive rebuilding effort of the depleted military and its weapons and tools, explaining that many of them are obsolete or non-operational.

Defense Newsreports “the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet strike fighters are the tip of the spear, embodying most of the fierce striking power of the aircraft carrier strike group.”

“But nearly two-thirds of the fleet’s strike fighters can’t fly — grounded because they’re either undergoing maintenance or simply waiting for parts or their turn in line on the aviation depot backlog.”

These problems emerged while Obama was president, who also purged the military of its best officers.

Trump also stressed multiple times that he would prefer to never have to use the U.S. military for combat during his presidency; in comparison, Obama was at war every day he was in office.

A Military.com survey taken just prior to the general election, comprised of active duty and reserve military personnel, revealed that they preferred Trump over Clinton by a 3-to-1 margin.

They must have realized that a vote for Hillary Clinton would be a vote for World War III.

“If you are a hungry child in Appalachia or the inner city…”

A map of Appalachia looks like this –

A 2016 electoral map of the Appalachia region, with counties Trump won in red, looks like this –

Barack Obama oversaw a 32% increase in Americans using food stamps, adding 10.7 million new hungry mouths to the rolls, while his wife Michelle took it upon herself to decimate the national school lunch standards – for children in Appalachia and the inner cities alike.

Trump discussed in-progress plans to begin the process of turning around deteriorating and crime-ridden inner cities, noting that an executive order on the issue is forthcoming.

He has addressed the dire situation facing American inner cities on many occasions, pledging to bring about a revolutionary approach to improving conditions and employment opportunities in the urban areas that have decayed tremendously under decades of failed and corrupt Democrat leadership.

“If you are an unemployed worker in a hollow shell of a steel town…”

Unemployed workers from hollow shells of steel towns only have Trump’s predecessors to blame. From Bill Clinton and NAFTA through Obama and the TPP, the globalist elite have done everything possible to suck the life out of the American manufacturing sector, and have been quite successful at doing so.

Trump dedicated large amounts of time to campaigning in the Rust Belt – while Hillary largely ignored it, and he completely dominated that region, breaking through the Democrat “Blue Wall” to take key states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota.

“Powered by an energized white working-class who dot small towns across those states, a Republican wave swept across and crumbled that wall. Trump’s message on trade channeled a dissatisfaction with the de-industrialization that has changed the economy in the Rust Belt, and results show that it resonated on Tuesday evening,” wrote CNN, just three months ago.

As he noted in the presser, Trump demanded stipulations that only American steel be used in the new pipeline projects – Keystone XL and Dakota Access.

Additional good news for steel workers came in December, when U.S. Steel CEO, Mario Longhi, announced that he was planning to bring back up to 10,000 American jobs as a result of Trump’s victory, noting that during the Obama presidency, “I was having to hire more lawyers to try to interpret these new regulations than I was hiring… engineers. That doesn’t make any sense.”

Reporters who tried to portray President Trump as an anti-Semite had egg on their faces after it was revealed that the Jewish man he supposedly insulted was a big Trump supporter.

Trump seemed to make the mistake of thinking that Turx was accusing him of being responsible for inspiring such attacks and noted that many of these alleged hate crimes were in fact hoaxes staged by anti-Trump leftists.

This prompted Trump to tell Turx to “sit down,” an exchange that immediately triggered a wave of contrived outrage from numerous journalists who suggested it was evidence of Trump’s anti-Semitism.

“It was the answer you’d get from an anti-semite,” tweeted AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis.

CNN reported on the incident, quoting the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt, who accused Trump of attacking critics “in the face of danger”.

However, Turx is not critic – he’s a fan of Donald Trump.

During a subsequent appearance on Fox News, Turx defended Trump.

“It is very unfair what’s been done to him,” Turx told Fox News’ Ed Henry. “So I understand why he’s so defensive. “I’m with him when it comes to being outraged about him being charged with this anti-Semitism.”

Turx added that he wasn’t offended when Trump told him to sit down.

“I was actually very hopeful because it shows a president who is so committed against this problem of anti-Semitism, that it bothers him on a deep, personal level,” Turx said. “It makes me very hopeful that he will work together with the community.”

While Trump should have listened to the question better, the media’s instant exploitation of the confusion to smear Trump as an anti-Semite illustrates their brazen bias once again.

Chief of Staff offering diplomatic posts to shady donors who will only hurt Trump

Trump loyalists are still up in arms over Chief of Staff Reince Priebus for bypassing Secretary of State Rex Tillerman to slip to President Trump a list of crony fat-cat RNC donors that Priebus wanted to reward with ambassador nominations to plum diplomatic posts.

Infowars.com has previously reported that despite President Trump’s public statements of support, Priebus is on the ropes, as Trump loyalists are assembling evidence that Priebus was responsible for demeaning leaks about Trump to the Washington Post and for engineering the purge of National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

Now, Priebus is also on the hook for having recommended to Trump a group of well-healed GOP elite donors with shady pasts that are certain to cause Trump additional headaches in the upcoming congressional confirmation hearings.

In the article published Wednesday, Infowars documented that on Priebus’ list of 15 top RNC donors who coveted the top ambassador appointments as prizes for their contributions was Duke Buchan, who stiffed investors when his $1 billion Hunter Global Investors hedge fund went belly-up unceremoniously in December 2011.

At the same time, Buchan somehow managed to squirrel away some $2 million in a tax-deferred charity, The George and Sarah Buchan Foundation, with charitable disbursements that appear to have reached a high of only $46,269.00 in 2012, making questionable how much charity the foundation was actually accomplishing.

Infowars now has evidence that from 1998 to 2000, Buchan was on the board of Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings while also a managing director of Maverick Capital Ltd., two companies that were the subject of a Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations inquiry, which issued a report on Aug. 1, 2006, entitled “Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers, the Tools and Secrecy.”

As a result of this investigation, the SEC filed a lawsuit in 2010 against Sam and Charles Wyly – partners with Buchan in the Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings offshore funds scandal – charging, among other things, that the defendants had hidden $550 million in trading profits by using “an elaborate sham system” of offshore entities.

On Feb. 2, the New York Times reported Buchan and his wife during the 2016 presidential campaign had committed $898,000 to Donald Trump’s fund-raising vehicle, Trump Victory – the maximum allowed under federal campaign laws.

“Some $10,800 went to Mr. Trump’s campaign. The rest was allocated to the Republican National Committee, thus endearing Mr. Buchan to Reince Priebus, then the head of the committee and now Mr. Trump’s chief of staff,” the New York Times noted.

Priebus later recommended Buchan to be U.S. ambassador to Spain.

Also on Priebus’ list was financier Lewis Eisenberg who Priebus recommended be named U.S. ambassador to Italy, another plum appointment. On Jan. 16, 2002, the Washington Times reported that in 1989, Eisenberg resigned his partnership in the prestigious Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs after a former assistant filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him.

“A 1990 Wall Street Journal article said ‘no one denies’ that Mr. Eisenberg, who was married at the time, had a seven-year affair with Kathy Abraham,” the Washington Times article continued. “In her lawsuit, she claimed that Mr. Eisenberg suggested she have sex with other Goldman Sachs partners.”

“The suit was later dismissed and Miss Abraham recanted her claims after receiving a settlement from the firm.”

At Priebus’ urging, Eisenberg agreed to head the RNC’s fund-raising effort with the Trump campaign in 2016, but he donated only $11,000 himself to the Trump Victory Fund that he was heading at that time – a donation that caused Drew Gerber at Forward.com to comment that the small size of this donation “may reflect a continued reluctance [on Eisenberg’s behalf] to throw any tangible support behind the controversial GOP presidential nominee.”

The Trump Victory Fund turned out to be much more of a bonanza for Priebus and the RNC than for Trump’s campaign.

On May 18, 2016, CNN reported the $449,000 maximum contribution under federal law to the Trump Victory Fund netted a maximum limit of $2,700 for the Trump campaign’s general election fund, $33,400 for the RNC, $110,000 for the 11 state parties and hundreds of thousands of dollars for party’s building, legal and convention funds.

The problem is that we are flat broke

No matter what your particular political perspective is, if there is one thing that virtually everyone in the United States can agree upon it is the fact that America’s infrastructure is crumbling.

Previous generations of Americans conquered an entire continent and erected the greatest system of infrastructure that the world had ever seen, but now thousands upon thousands of those extremely impressive infrastructure projects are decades old and in desperate need of repair or upgrading. The near catastrophic failure of the Oroville Dam is a perfect example of what I am talking about. We should be constructing the next generation of infrastructure projects for our children and our grandchildren, but instead we are in such sorry shape that we can’t even keep up with the maintenance and upkeep on the great infrastructure projects that have been handed down to us.

Once upon a time nobody on the entire planet could even come close to matching our infrastructure, but now our crumbling infrastructure has become a joke to much of the rest of the industrialized world. Sadly, this is just another symptom of our long-term economic collapse. We simply are not able to put as much of our money toward infrastructure as previous generations of Americans did, and as a result we have a giant mess on our hands. The following are 11 deeply alarming facts about America’s crumbling infrastructure…

#1 According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, nearly 56,000 bridges in the United States are currently “structurally deficient”. What makes that number even more chilling is the fact that vehicles cross those bridges a total of 185 million times a day.

#10 Federal spending on infrastructure has decreased by 9 percent over the past decade.

#11 According to Bloomberg, it is being projected “that by 2025, shortfalls in infrastructure investment will subtract as much as $3.9 trillion from U.S. gross domestic product.”

The quality of our infrastructure affects all of our lives every single day. For instance, we all simply take it for granted that safe, clean drinking water is going to come out of our taps, but recent events have shown that is not necessarily always going to be the case.

Water pipes, sewer systems and water treatment facilities all over the nation are aging and are in desperate need of repair. Of course the exact same thing could be said about our power grid. It was never intended to handle so many people, and on the hottest days of the summer the strain on the grid is very evident.

And of course the power grid is exceedingly vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse event, and this is something that I covered in my book on getting prepared. It has been projected that it would only cost a couple billion dollars to harden the grid against an EMP event, but our politicians refuse to spend the money.

Meanwhile, President Trump is completely correct when he says that our airports look like something that you would see in a third world country. Most of our airports are at least several decades old, and they are definitely showing their age.

But things are even worse when you look at other systems of mass transit around the country. While other nations such as Japan and China are investing huge amounts of money into high speed rail, we are doing next to nothing even though what we currently have is absolutely pathetic.

I could go on and talk about our ports, schools, waterways, parks, etc. but I think that you get the point.

President Trump’s instincts are right on the money when he says that he wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. Without a doubt, we desperately need it.

It is easy for liberals to say that we should raise taxes, but how much more are you going to squeeze out of U.S. consumers? Two-thirds of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, and we just learned that U.S. household debt has risen to a grand total of 12.58 trillion dollars.

Once upon a time, America was the wealthiest nation on the entire planet and we could afford to construct bold, new infrastructure projects from sea to shining sea.

But today we have the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world and we can’t even afford to repair what we already have.

When I speak of our long-term economic collapse, this is precisely the sort of thing that I am talking about. We have clearly been in decline for a very long time, and anyone that would suggest otherwise is simply not being honest with you.

It turns out the “woman” whose detention by ICE Chelsea Clinton found “horrifying,” “sick” and “awful” only identifies as a woman and is actually reportedly a domestic abuser who has been deported six times.

Whoops.

Chelsea Clinton voiced her outrage Wednesday night to her over 1.49 million followers on Twitter over a report that a six time deported illegal alien man from Mexico with a lengthy criminal record that includes a convictions for domestic violence and assault was detained by ICE last week in Texas.

Clinton was responding to a report that a woman was detained by ICE in the El Paso County Courthouse in Texas as she received a protective order against her boyfriend for domestic violence. That is the propaganda angle being pushed by liberals and the media but the story goes much deeper.

Clinton responded to a tweet by former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign operative [and current employ of Obama’s shadow government operation Organizing for America] Jesse Lehrich about the detention that read, “6 ICE agents arrested an undocumented woman at a courtroom as she received a protective order. they were tipped off by her domestic abuser.”

Clinton commented, “I need a thesaurus. What’s another word for horrifying? Sick? Awful? Running out of adjectives these days that mean unconscionably terrible”

…a criminal complaint on file with the U.S. District Court in El Paso indicates that a person of the same name as the alleged victim might have a history of deportation and domestic violence.

…The criminal complaint states that on Feb. 2, Homeland Security Investigations Border Enforcement Security Taskforce agents received information that Irvin Gonzalez, who also is known as Ervin Gonzalez, was in the U.S. despite having been previously deported. The information received stated that Gonzalez was staying at the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence.

The complaint, filed Feb. 9, indicates that Gonzalez, whom Bernal identified as transgender, had been deported six times since 2010 — apparently after arrests for crimes including possession of stolen mail, false imprisonment and assault.

As the Gateway Pundit notes:

The Times posted a copy of the criminal complaint against Gonzalez that shows an initial voluntary deportation in 2007 followed by deportations in 2010, 2011, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016. This detention marks the eight time Gonzalez has been found to have entered the U.S. illegally.

The complaint states Gonzalez’s date of birth as 03/18/1983 making him 33 years old, and his being a citizen of Mexico.

The complaint lists eight criminal convictions in the U.S. for Gonzalez from 2010 through 2015. Gonzalez was sentenced to around a total of four years for the various offenses. Convictions included assault, domestic violence and false imprisonment.

Departing CIA director a radical left-wing activist

Out of hatred for McGovernite liberals, a Republican president in the 1970s broke the law. Now those aging radicals break the law out of hatred for a Republican president.

Nested within intelligence agencies, they have fed a series of criminal leaks to a press corps that functions like an anti-Trump dirty tricks operation.

Donald Trump has publicly speculated that former CIA director John Brennan is one of the criminal leakers. In January, he tweeted out, “Was this the leaker of Fake News?” Trump has now charged the Justice Department with investigating “low-life leakers” in the government.

Former CIA analyst Tony Shaffer also suspects Brennan as one of the leakers. He said on Fox Business Network that the leaks which forced Michael Flynn out can be laid “squarely at the feet of” Brennan, among other embittered Obama aides.

Recall the astounding admission Brennan once made at a “diversity” conference in 2016: that he thought he had “screwed” up his chances to enter the CIA after undergoing a polygraph test which smoked out his support for the American Communist Party during the Cold War. This sounds like a parody, but it isn’t. As he recounted:

This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate… I froze, because I was getting so close to coming into CIA and said, “OK, here’s the choice, John. You can deny that, and the machine is probably going to go, you know, wacko, or I can acknowledge it and see what happens.”… I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party, so the polygrapher looked at me and said, “OK,” and when I was finished with the polygraph and I left and said, “Well, I’m screwed.”

Unfortunately, he wasn’t. He entered the CIA, rose to its highest rank, and then salted the agency with fellow radicals, whose hatred for the “system” now takes the form of sabotaging the Trump administration.

French police have been filmed fleeing from armed mobs as riots continue

French police have been filmed fleeing from armed mobs as riots continue in Paris for the second week and the unrest has now spread to the city centre.

Hundreds of violent thugs took to the streets on Wednesday night near the Barbes Metro station, close to the major transport hub Gare du Nord. Windows were smashed, shops looted, fires lit, main roads blocked, and police cars targeted during the disturbance.

ANGRY FRENCH MOB TORCHES PARIS POLICE CAR WITH OFFICERS STILL INSIDE

According to Le Figaro, the destruction is getting worse. At the beginning of the week, on the nights of the 12th and 13th, 32 vehicles were burnt out. On the 14th and 15th, some 47 cars were destroyed by fire as well as 59 bins.

Police appeared to have completely lost control at times, with unverified videos surfacing on Twitter of officers being chased out of certain neighbourhoods by rioters.

An officer at the scene said: “Windows have been smashed and officers attacked. Small groups of protesters wearing hoods to hide their identities are causing trouble and then running away.

“When my people do a crime, they get three strikes, your people do a crime, they get amnesty”

Video footage from a town hall meeting shows an African-American Trump supporter passionately slamming sanctuary cities as a racist assault on the black community.

“Sanctuary cities are racist – black communities have been destroyed by illegal immigration,” says the woman, adding that the situation called for a “second civil rights movement.”

Tracing her ancestry back to slave ships, the woman said, “I’m not going anywhere….sanctuary cities are racist, all the jobs are going to illegals….that is wrong, you’re not going to be allowed to get away with it….the black community has been destroyed by racist illegal immigration and we’re not gonna have it.”

“When my people do a crime, they get three strikes, your people do a crime, they get amnesty, they get benefits and they’re not paying taxes,” she added.

“Thank God for Trump, thank God for Sessions and you should be ashamed of yourselves, how dare you?” roared the woman, questioning why illegals were allowed to claim benefits for people living back in Mexico, while her own family members struggled in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Trump has threatened to cut off federal funds to so-called “sanctuary cities” that prevent law enforcement from apprehending illegal aliens. Polls show that 56 per cent of Hispanics support Trump’s policy of deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.

McCain told him he was sending a letter to President Trump

For the second time in a week, a Russian comedian has released a prank call with a top member of the U.S. Congress.

“Hello Mr. Prime Minister, how are you?” Arizona Sen. John McCain told a man known as Vovan, who was posing as Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

After exchanging pleasantries, the prankster said he wanted to talk about U.S. sanctions on Russia.

McCain told him he was sending a letter to President Trump, urging him to send “lethal weapons” to Ukraine to fight Russia.

The senator told the prankster he would do “everything I can to be of assistance” to push Trump to support his country.

“I have to be very frank with my friend, the prime minister. I do not know what the president is going to do,” McCain said.

McCain said his allies in Congress would fight legislatively if Trump attempts to ease sanctions on Russia.

“I will keep you informed as I hear of the decisions being made by the White House. As you know, there’s a great deal of confusion now, but we will continue to advocate — including our Senate leader, Sen. McConnell — for maintaining sanctions and increasing sanctions,” McCain told the prankster.

“But I have to tell you, my friend, I cannot predict what this president will do. That’s why we must keep the pressure on.”

Earlier this week, Vovan posted on his Facebook page a similar conversation with California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

The comedian, posing as Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, and Waters discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia and Donald Trump’s position on them.

He went on to tell Waters that he has “good relations with Ms. Clinton.”